MONTGOMERY TWP — A Lansdale woman is behind bars after Montgomery Township police said she blew through a DUI checkpoint in her Jeep in the early morning hours of July 20, led officers on a high-speed pursuit and then assaulted cops who tried to take her into custody a short time later outside her residence.

Heather Marie Feerrar, 36, of the 400 block of Pierce Street, was arraigned before a district judge Sunday morning on 14 criminal counts, including three counts of felony aggravated assault, one count of felony fleeing or attempting to elude police, two counts of misdemeanor recklessly endangering another person, one count each of misdemeanor DUI and misdemeanor resisting arrest, and related offenses.

According to Montgomery Township police, officers were manning a sobriety checkpoint on Cowpath Road near Dylan Drive when just before 2 a.m. a black Jeep Wrangler driven by Feerrar failed to stop as directed by uniformed cops and proceeded through the checkpoint at 30 miles per hour, despite signage that indicated the maximum speed limit at the checkpoint was 20 miles per hour.

Officers followed and attempted to pull over the Jeep at the red light at Cowpath Road and Route 309, police said, but the vehicle “disregarded all efforts to effect a traffic stop” and led officers on a pursuit during which Feerrar allegedly reached speeds of 70 miles per hour on North Wales Road and Knapp Road, exceeding the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour.

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At one point during the pursuit, police said, the Jeep lost control while driving up a curb and caused “turf damage” to a property on the 100 block of Knapp Road, then continued to flee and blew through a stop sign at Knapp Road and Lansdale Avenue.

Officers decided to terminate the pursuit and instead went to an address on the 400 block of Pierce Street where the vehicle was registered, and found the Jeep unoccupied and the driver, identified as Feerrar, walking in the area and holding the keys to the vehicle, which she owns, police said.

Officers attempted to arrest Feerrar, but she pushed, kicked and headbutted them until she was eventually taken into custody, according to police, who said that Feerrar’s breath smelled of alcohol, that she had watery and bloodshot eyes and that she “was rambling to officers, making little sense.”

Another officer subsequently identified Feerrar as the driver of the Jeep that had failed to stop at the checkpoint, police said.

Feerrar was transported to an area hospital for a blood draw for testing but, police said, as she sat in the back of a patrol car with the rear door open while an officer read to her the form requesting she consent to having blood taken, she allegedly kicked the officer in the legs.

At the July 20 preliminary arraignment, District Judge Margaret Hunsicker of Norristown set Feerrar’s bail at $10,000 cash, and she was committed to Montgomery County Correctional Facility after failing to post bond.

She’s due in District Judge Andrea Hudak Duffy’s Montgomery Township courtroom on July 30 for a preliminary hearing.